Improvement in labels intended for second use



,, stance of the label.

NIT-ED STATES ATENT F F ICEo HENRY LOEWENBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN LABELS INTENDED FOR SECOND USE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,208, dated April 5, 1864.

. of a peculiar mode of preparation, hereinafter described, is adapted to be attached by means of a suitable material to any desired object and removed from and replaced upon the same or any other object as often as desired without injury.

In order that others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may be enabled to understand the same, I will proceed to describe the manner of carrying it into effect.

1 apply to ,the back side of the label, or that side which is to be attached to any object, a preparation of wax or resinous niat-ter or other suitable material which will prevent the direct contact of the adhesive material with the sub- I or this purpose I have used with good effect white wax, sperm, and a resinous gum or equivalent materials, or either of em, applied in solution to the paper and a1 wed to dry. Gum-arabic or other suitable adhesive material is then spread on the prepared surface, and a label so produced may be applied by moistening and slight pressure to a bottle, a card, a package of merchandise, or other object, and will remain firmly attached thereto until it is desired to remove it; but owing to the fact that the body of the label is not penetrated by the adhesive substance, and the latter is only mechanically united with the prepared glossy surface of thelabel, the latter can be readily removed without injury by detaching an edge, and by this drawing it from the surface to which it is attached.

Among other purposes for which this improved label is valuable, I may name the following, to wit: first, merchandise labels to be used repeatedly or retained for evidence or entries after shipment of goods; second, receipts or coupons tobe placed, one over another, upon the face of notes, bonds, certificates, or other documents, and as the interest they represent is paid detached one by one,

exposing the coupon or receipt next in order; third, railroad-tickets, which in like manner may be attached together in successive layers, each over the face of the other, and detached as required, whereby a series of tickets for an extended through route may be formed into a card of convenient size; and, fourth, calendars, time-tables, and like documents requiring p'eriodical or occasional alteration, which may be efl'ected by the removal or attachment of sheets covering a part or the whole of the surface.

Having thus described my invention, I wish it distinctly understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details herein laid down, nor to the use of the materials specified but What I claim as new, and desire to srcure by Letters Patent, is-

An adhesive label formed of paper or cloth prepared in the manner described, to prevent the penetration of the adhesivesubstauce by which the label is to be attached, and thus adapt the said label to be applied and removed as often as desired without destroying it.

HENRY LOEWENBERG.

Witnesses:

Oomvrus KNIGHT, CHARLES DU BOIS. 

